Someone upthread said “sell the ranch,” which is what I came in here to say. I’ve always thought it was inaccurate when people wished for the day when Bush would “retire to his ranch in Crawford.” That ranch is the set for a TV show, nothing more. When Bush no longer needs it, he’ll sell it…
…or give it to his nephew George P. Bush to use as the set for his TV show, currently in preproduction. :eek:
and without being elected.
He’ll moulder in the ground, probably. Rarely has a President started a war against a nation that did not provoke us, as W did; & those that have have been known to suffer. Kennedy’s fervent anti-Communism caused more than one fracas in Cuba, as well as an escalation of US advisers in Vietnam. And he was assassinated in office, arguably as punishment for his repeated attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. Lincoln wouldn’t let the South secede peacefully; he ran fields red with blood to stop it. And he was killed for it.
Once W’s out of office, he may be a lower-value target for assassination, but he’ll also be a lower priority for the Secret Service. I expect he will be killed, maybe within about two years, & by one of his own countrymen.
Why would HRC be in Gitmo?
Well, if I’d started that war, it’s what I’d do. Somehow I expect less from W.
I flunked English.
He will sit back, enjoy retirement and clearing brush on his Texas ranch, and watch as his legacy as the first and worst president of the 21st century moves from opinion to fact.
I think he’ll continue his work with the poor and perhaps occasionally heal a child who has scrofula with just a gentle kiss on the forehead. At some point he’ll come to Montgomery to make up his National Guard training, at which point he will also insist that he’ll never get back to school in time for his 8th grade roll call, and we’ll all know he’s drinking again.
Or, he’ll become owner/operator of an orangutan act that travels to churches preaching on the evils of evolution. The name of the troupe will be “Monkeys is Funny!” He’ll leave the act long enough to defend himself on TV when the book “My 8 Years Working With the Stupidest Boss On Earth” by Condoleeza Rice becomes a bestseller and Lifetime movie (starring, strangely enough, Meredith Baxter in her first African-American role), but then he’ll decide the reporters are being mean and retire with his organgutans to a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, wondering why winters are so cold in the Pacific.
HRC will be in Gitmo because you flunked English?
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He will spend a great deal of time throwing puppies off bridges.
So, what will President Bush do once he’s out of office?
Maybe Cheney will offer to take him hunting.
Seriously, he’s spent, what, a fourth of his entire time *on the clock * enjoying the comforts of Crawford, TX. He’s the most-vacationed President in history. The only difference will be a few *more * months per year down there.
The best answer I’ve seen for what Bush can do when he leaves the White House was in a Richard Roeper column in the Chicago Sun-Times. I can’t find a link to the original, but Dan Froomkin referenced it in a Washington Post column (the quote is at the bottom of the column).
A stark reminder that what SHOULD happen and what WILL happen are, too often, polar opposites.